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Of JANUARY and May , The Wife of Bath , and TRANSLATIONS of STATIUS and Ovid , and the ImiTATIONS of some English Poets . TH HE first dawnings of polite literature in Italy , appeared in talewriting and fables .
Of JANUARY and May , The Wife of Bath , and TRANSLATIONS of STATIUS and Ovid , and the ImiTATIONS of some English Poets . TH HE first dawnings of polite literature in Italy , appeared in talewriting and fables .
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From the accidental circumstance of Dryden and Pope's having copied the gay and ludicrous parts of Chaucer , the common notion seems to have arisen , that Chaucer's BA Chaucer's vein of poetry was chiefly turned to the light AND ...
From the accidental circumstance of Dryden and Pope's having copied the gay and ludicrous parts of Chaucer , the common notion seems to have arisen , that Chaucer's BA Chaucer's vein of poetry was chiefly turned to the light AND ...
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Chaucer's vein of poetry was chiefly turned to the light and the ridiculous * . But they who look into Chaucer , will soon be convinced of this prevailing prejudice , and will find his comic vein , like that of Shakespear , to be only ...
Chaucer's vein of poetry was chiefly turned to the light and the ridiculous * . But they who look into Chaucer , will soon be convinced of this prevailing prejudice , and will find his comic vein , like that of Shakespear , to be only ...
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One of our late great poets is sunk in his reputation , because he could never forgive any Conceit that came in his way ; but swept , like a drag - net , great and small . There was plenty enough , but the dishes were ill - forted ...
One of our late great poets is sunk in his reputation , because he could never forgive any Conceit that came in his way ; but swept , like a drag - net , great and small . There was plenty enough , but the dishes were ill - forted ...
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... astrology , chemistry and romance , there was not one copy of Tully to be found , and no Latin poet but Ovid , Lucan and Boethius ; some French translations of Livy , Valerius Maximus , and St. Austin's City of God .
... astrology , chemistry and romance , there was not one copy of Tully to be found , and no Latin poet but Ovid , Lucan and Boethius ; some French translations of Livy , Valerius Maximus , and St. Austin's City of God .
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| Title | An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2 An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Joseph Warton Volume 2 of An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope. In Two Volumes, Joseph Warton |
| Author | Joseph Warton |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | J. Dodsley, 1782 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 4 Aug 2010 |
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